STB Contracts in Brentwood

Set-Top Box (STB)
Essex > Brentwood

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in contract job vacancies in Brentwood. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing STB 3 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 33.33% 26.47% 9.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 42.86% 69.23% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £340 £302 -
25th Percentile £363 £304 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% - -
75th Percentile - £386 -
90th Percentile - £425 -
Essex median daily rate £400 £315 -
% change year-on-year +26.98% - -

All Generic Skills
Brentwood

STB falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 77.78% 38.24% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £363 £302 -
25th Percentile - £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% - -
75th Percentile £428 £413 -
90th Percentile £457 £435 -
Essex median daily rate £400 £463 £360
% change year-on-year -13.51% +28.47% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.86 -
Essex median hourly rate £18.67 £35.65 £40.39
% change year-on-year -47.63% -11.74% +42.17%

STB
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

Job postings citing STB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Brentwood.

Job vacancy trend for STB in Brentwood

STB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing STB in Brentwood.

Daily rate trend for STB in Brentwood

STB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Gerrit
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DTV Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Yocto
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Digital TV
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script